Cubs Get 2 Minor-leaguers In Trade For Rohn

April 02, 1985|By Mike Kiley and Fred Mitchell.

The Cubs traded Dan Rohn to the Cleveland Indians Monday, who assigned the 29-year-old infielder to their Triple-A farmclub in Maine.

In exchange for Rohn, the Cubs received pitcher Jay Baller and infielder/ outfielder Glenn Edwards. Baller was assigned to the Cubs` Triple-A team in Iowa, and Edwards was sent to their Class A team in Winston-Salem.

Rohn batted .268 with eight home runs and 46 RBIs at Iowa last season. Baller was 4-5 at Buffalo and 9-4 at Maine, and Edwards batted .229 with 12 homers and 44 RBIs at Waterloo.

-- Steve Trout said he got stronger as the game went on, but the California Angels scored one run in the first inning and another in the sixth to defeat Trout and the Cubs 2-1 in Palm Springs, Calif.

``I`ll be all right when the season starts. I`m just working on getting stronger,`` said Trout, whose spring record dipped to 1-3. ``I`m just trying to keep the ball in the park, mainly.``

Trout permitted two runs on five hits. He walked three and struck out none in six innings. It was the Cubs` fourth straight loss to the Angels.

Thad Bosley was 3-for-4 with an RBI. He now leads the Cubs with 10 RBIs and he improved his batting average to .400 (16-for-40).

-- Cubs` general manager Dallas Green and Angels` GM Mike Port talked before Sunday`s game, fueling rumors of a trade that would send Larry Bowa to the Angels for left-hander Tommy John.

``We`re really not anxious to trade Larry,`` Green said. ``One reason we think this is the right year to go with the kid (Shawon Dunton) is because we still have a veteran we can bring in in the late innings. Young players tend to make mistakes. We know Larry can catch the ball, at least.``

As for John, Green said, ``I think in the right situation, Tommy can do a good job, and I know he`d be good on the club. We`d have to run him out of the bullpen, and I don`t know if he`d be happy with that.``

``Personally, I think the (Angels) ballclub has to release me,`` said John, 41, who has two years left on his contract that is worth $1.1 million.

``I don`t fit into their plans and now it`s too late to trade me anyway. Ballclubs already have their rosters set.``

John said he would like to play in the Midwest because he has family in Indiana.

Green said he plans to talk further with Port Monday.

-- Pitcher Bill Landrum was reacquired Sunday by the Cincinnati Reds, who had to pay $12,500 to get back the right-handed reliever. The Sox paid $25,000 to pick him up last December in a major-league draft at the winter meetings. But the Sox had to offer him back to the Reds for half-price if Landrum wasn`t going to make the big club and the Reds took him rather than let the Sox option him to Triple A.

-- Bob James, the Sox`s new stopper, is where he wants to be physically after he threw two innings Sunday against the Jays and checked them on a hit and no runs.

-- Tom Paciorek played his first game Sunday since March 19 and had an RBI hit. He was part of the Sox squad that edged Kansas City 6-5 in Ft. Myers, Fla. His spring was interrupted by an intestinal virus.

-- Richie Hebner`s mother died Saturday in Boston. The Cub veteran left Palm Springs Sunday morning to attend the funeral and he will rejoin the ballclub in Mesa, Ariz., at the end of the week.